The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.

Friday, May 04, 2012

Internets...Broken...Must

Must...Struggle on...

C'mon, AT&T, try to at least fake it. 1.34 Mbps is not "high speed DSL." You might as well just mail me screengrabs!

We ate the last packet this morning, after a final, forlorn ping came staggering in from Illinois. The RJ45s are rattling like castinets, loose in their sockets. The Cat6 was withered down to Cat4 last time I dared look. Will we escape from this vast wasteland before it hits Cat-nil, rotting cloth-covered UTP flapping broken and bleached under the merciless sun?

Save yourself! The providers have dumped us here to live or die, and it's every modem for itself!

Can you try a different modem? My cable internet went to heck over the last year (down to about 250 kbps, should have been 10 Mbps), and after their phone support folks said "when can we send out a tech?" I figured I'd just drop it. (I wasn't in a position to take time off of work to wait fo the tech.) But I chanced $30 on a cable modem on eBay and it works great now.

"I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."